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Hi Oliver, > It can be used to declare revisions "dead" after the fact, i.e. instead > of cvs remove'ing them: Revisions that are declared "dead" will no > longer be checked out. On occasion I utilized this for emulating > renames (copy ,v-file in repository, then mark all revisions in the new > file prior to the rename "dead", finally cvs remove the old file). That's fine :-) > Apart from that the state has no meaning to CVS AFAIK. I guess it could > still serve some kind of documentation purpose but I'm not using that. There was some mumblings in the rcs/rcsfile documentation about setting the state to "Rel" and "Stab", but I think that was a hangover from the days before tag/branch came along. I don't think anybody uses them anymore. Greetings, David